What Style Hunting situation do you choose?

For deer hunting, some days I walk/stalk, some days I sit. Depends on where I'm at(small private parcels as opposed to large public tracts) and if the weather is conductive to bein' sneaky. Sometimes I walk just to see old spots I ain't been to in years or to relive a old memory. Wild Turkeys I love to run and gun, but have been known to sit all day iffin I expect an old adversary to appear. Upland birds are always hunted behind a good dog.


I question the legality of "getting a doe in the garden with a 22 short".
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.......things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.:D
 
I hunt a couple of large farms with light hunting pressure,Power lines & cutovers are My kind of places.I'm a comfort hunter for deer,A nice folding chair & a tripod for my rlfle. Set up & watch works great for me,looking over about 500yds with a big cup of coffee & a couple bambie & biscuits.

Now thats my kind of hunting & it works pretty well also.:D
 
Buck 460...
See my explanation of the circumstances, a couple of posts further up this thread.
The deer seem to be attracted by the noise of us working the orchard...or in this case of target shooting off the back deck. Here are a couple of youngsters who came rather close last week as we did spinner targets less than 50 feet from where they stood. We don't mess with them when they 'watch'...but when they chow down we try to move them on.

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I do like the stalk but mostly do the flushing kind.

I do do some baiting of pigs and fox but have a hard time with this sitting still so I can't really stand stand hunting, i fall asleep it is so nice and quiet:D

some geese hunting.

the old man is growing older so I might take over his dog for moose hun ting duty, gotta get in shape first because when hunting with the dog you'll walk, walk and then walk some more:o but it beats sitting in a stand
 
The most enjoyment I have ever had was bow hunting elk. In 1985 a friend of mine had a heart attack and I got to go on a guided hunt in his place. I killed a rag horn the first morning at daylight.

We asked the outfitter if he had ever taken anybody bow hunting and he had not. So, the next year we came bow hunting. He had a couple of guides. They were good old boys, but just as clueless as we were.

So, we cut a deal with the outfitter that we would come in Sept. when he was setting up his camp. We helped with the chores, but for the most part we didn't bother him and he didn't bother us.

It took us a couple of years to figure it out, but we got to where we could get in to the elk about every day. I think I have been within 100 yards of enough herd bulls to fill a transfer truck. Of course, getting within thirty or forty is harder but a rush like no other when you do. We hunted this way for about 10 years until that outfitter passed away. The new ones want to watch you like a hawk. Liability concerns I guess. I have a stack of photos. I should buy a scanner and post some of them some time.

As far as deer hunting, I do it about any way depending on the mood I am in. But, I spend more time bow hunting. It is pretty cool to sneak up on one close enough to kill it with a bow. But, I don't care much for this attitude some have that their way is somehow superior. The ones I have shot out of a stand taste about the same as near as I can tell.
 
I mostly hunt mule deer with Binoculars and a spotting scope. Get up on the high points and find the bucks in the sage then figure a way to get within range.
Sometimes this means driving to the next drainage, then a sneak over the ridge, if the wind is right.
Sometimes, we drive up to a large bowl and roll rocks down the hill. It always surprises me when a deer gets out of the brush just 100 yards below after we have been rolling rocks for ten minutes!
 
I just stick to pigs and varmint. You get all of the fun of shooting and a hunting type experience with negligible cost. If you can become trusted by a small farmer or rancher you can do it for free. I don't know how to go about befriending a property owner lol, mine were my friends before I ever started hunting. The hunting began as attempting to remove raccoons as a favor. My skills as a shooter was th impetus. I knew nothing about raccoons or raccoon hunting, boy! Did I learn quick! Lol. Now as few year later I do pigs and coyotes, ect. On a couple of places. I help with feeding and watering these places too. Deer hunters at the same places get charged lol.
 
Whether in the open country or woods I always preferred to hunt on the ground and stalk.
I never considered being in a high fancy blind over a food plot hunting, but just shooting. Not much skill there but just making the shot. I realize in thick brush your chances of getting a shot are sometimes small, but that is what hunting is about for me.

Jerry
 
I have about 1700 acres that I would like to see somebody still hunt. Ninety percent of it you couldn't see a deer if it was 20 feet away from you. Deer love it in there. Lots of briars and honey suckle. Occassionally one will poke his head out and you can shoot him either on a field or one of the drainages that wasn't timbered. Or you can sit on a trail with a bow and clear out enough for maybe a 20 or 30 yard shot. But, still hunting? Wrong world.
 
I agree, the terrain dictates how I hunt. Some areas are just impossible to sneak around in because of noise, terrain, wind currents. Sometimes I hunt outback off a rickity ladder stand I built in our fence row. If I am sitting in the middle of a circle, I can only shoot in 1/4 of that circle, yet I have had really good luck there. Sometimes you must go where they are.
 
Terrain and vegetation dictate how one hunts. Maw Nature has a lot to say in that matter. :)

A lot of the south Texas "brasada"--the brush country--south of US 90 is a lot like a pool table covered with mesquite, catclaw and cactus. Sneaky-snaking in that stuff works well--for a snake. OTOH, walking hunting for mule deer in west Texas is productive. And, for whitetail in the Hill Country of central Texas. But all of that is different from the swampy river bottom along the Appalachicola in Florida. :)
 
No canned hunts for me. My hunting is done on public property and it always involves camping with friends and relatives. No tree stands, manufactured blinds, or bait either. The only exception to that is birds. Those are hunted on private property and sometimes from a blind.
 
Canned hunts are illegal, most states.

Generally, I won't go hunting in country where some sort of stand is near-mandatory. Don't like them. But, if I'm in that sort of area and somebody says, "Hey, let's go hunting!"? Guess what. I see it as rude, crude and impolite to not go with the local program.

I've always figured that BSing around the evening campfire is the main deal in any style of messing with Bambi. :)
 
Bow only.

Usually from a stand or blind. Spot and stalk or still hunting is the most rewarding but sometimes near impossible to pull of. Great for city deer.

Shotgun comes out for waterfowl and that is about it.

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still going

I bowhunt deer, whitetails, and have never traveled to do it. I'm a bowhunter first, but do kill some with a rifle, especially if the season is slow. AL archery deer season is over 100 days long, and most areas are 2 deer a day. Some years I run out of freezer space, other years, I work hard just to kill 1. I'll get 40 -50 hunts in a season. Most years I pass more shots than I take. I miss a few too. Last year I hunted like a maniac, missed one and killed one w/ a bow, and missed a dandy (twice!) running a doe, with a rifle!

I live very close to a near 50,00 acre public land tract, that allows bow hunting the entire season. and I bowhunt it alot. It has limited gun hunting. Once the gun season comes in, I rarely see another bow hunter, and have never had a conflict with hunting pressure on the WMA bow season, as most guys switch to rifles and hunt elsewhere. And I do not hunt the food plots as most of the other bow- only guys do. It gives me trouble free hunting and I love it.

I bow hunt soley from treestands, climbers mostly. A "put up" stand is a bunch of work and noise, and leaves scent everywhere. I "put up" a few, but not many. I'm still healthy and able enough to hike and climb, and hope to do it for a while longer. I don't miind humping the stand in and out. Sometimes I will put a climber on a tree and leave it if the spot is really back in the woods. I have never lost a stand, nor had indication anybody hunted a stand I'd left, in over 20 yrs.

I do belong to a club or lease as well, about 3000 acres. It has food plots and some shooting houses, and that's good for the bamaboy or me in really bad weather. To keep the lease, we have had to bring on more and more guys,and its gotten kind of crowded, but I keep my membership up. Ya gotta hunt when you can and the plots and houses give me an option (with a firearm).

I an a fanatical spring gobbler hunter. Lord spare me, but if I had to choose only one, I would hang up my deer bow and hunt turkeys in the spring with a shotgun. Al gpbbler season lasts 30-45 days depending on your zone. I had the best season a guy could have last spring with bamaboy killing his first two. I didn't so so bad myself. I will spare all further.

Your hog stories/fees are interesting. I some day hope to go on a paid hog/turkey hunt, in TX with a good friend, if we are still able bodied and can afford it.
 
About all of my hunting anymore consists of a very slow walk through the woods for deer or squirrel either one.My legs wont let me go very fast or very far,but it is better than setting and have them knot up on me.I have to be out,told the wife Iwill qiut hunting when Im in the ground.;)
 
Wife and I plan on entire archery season here which is 30 days and were leaving this coming tues get camp set up and little scouting and be set for opening day on the 25th. On our last trip we seen some bulls high and some cows low 7500ft and some of the drainage have water and good feed.

I also drew rifle season cow elk tag/buck tag Nov 3-11th and I''ll be same units as archery and those 30 days if season last that long get me in better shape for rifle season.

I didn't have elk archery tag last year and I got into elk 3rd day of season and wife got into them week later she got within 60yds good experience for her so she been working on her calling and few other things. She also decide after archery last year no more rifle hunting likes the warmer weather me I'd never give up the rifle.

I'm lucky at 70 and still able to get up around timber line and hunt like I want and it just takes me little long to get places and may have to take extra trip packing meat out but that's what it's all about.
 
I like hunting the big open areas out West. Mountains, rolling sage and oak covered hills, the desert. It is where I learned to hunt and with what I compare everything else...
 
The State has restrictions. I hunt within those boundaries. Our season here is 2-weeks and three weekends long. I'm up in the early AM before day light and let the weather guide my day. Rainy day. I sit comfortably in a enclosed heated stand. Sunny day. You might see me sitting motionless on a blow over back in the woods. I don't consider myself a serious hunter. I find it more entertaining just observing Mother Nature. When it comes to harvesting deer. I'm just lucky I guess from year to year._:)
 
Favorite? Archery hunting from a climbing stand on private land in the northeast, hardwoods adjacent to cultivated fields.



But any day out is a good one.
 
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